"Amid billows of mysteries have I fallen"

"This Jesus has made so many symbols that I have fallen into the sea of them" (trans. McCullough, The body of this death:  letters from the last Archbishop of Lancaster (Elk Grove Village, IL:  Word on Fire Academic, 2025), [vi]).

"This Jesus has multiplied for us mysteries. Amid billows of mysteries have I fallen, which show me in parable the life of the dead, in all mysteries and in all types" (trans. Stopford, NPNF, 2nd ser., vol. 13 (1898), p. 202; CCEL).

"Hic Jesus multiplicavit nobis typos, incidi in mare typorum, qui mihi parabolizant resurrectionem mortuorum omnimodis figuris et imaginibus" (trans. Bickell, Carmina Nisibena (1866), 157; Syriac, 70 ff.).

     St. Ephraem the Syrian, Carmina Nisibena 39.17.  Original Syriac:  CSCO 240, Scriptores Syri 102.2, ed. Beck (1963), 27.  Selectable.